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	Zhan Videnov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zhan Vasilev Videnov (Bulgarian: Жан Василев Виденов) (born March 22, 1959) was the Prime Minister of Bulgaria from January 25, 1995 until February 13, 1997.
		Zhan Videnov undergraduated from the Plovdiv English Language School (ELS).
		Zhan Videnov is married and has one son.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zhan_Videnov (266 words)

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		Videnov said he entered politics by accident when, in a last-minute selection, he was placed fourth on the BSP's Plovdiv list for the 1990 parliamentary election.
		Videnov was not yet Socialist leader when he apologized to the nation for the party's mistakes in a televised debate.
		Videnov was unanimously elected prime minister-designate by the BSP-led coalition.
	www.b-info.com /places/Bulgaria/news/95-01/jan26.bta (1869 words)

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		Zhan Videnov's policy declaration and the future cabinet's line- up were criticised by the second-largest parliamentary group, the opposition Union of Democratic Forces (SDS), the newly-founded Popular Union (a coalition between the Democratic Party and Anastasia Mozer's BZNS) and the ethnic Turks' Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS).
		Videnov stated that his cabinet would not allow any departure from Bulgaria's principled refusal to be involved in any form whatsoever, directly or indirectly, even under the auspices of international organizations, in military operations in the Balkans.
		Videnov said other major risks to national security are ethnic and religious conflicts and the emigration wave, the grave economic crisis and crime, and the "consistent policy of weakening the army, the police, the intelligence and the counterintelligence".
	www.b-info.com /places/Bulgaria/news/95-01/jan27a.bta (3839 words)

	News from Bulgaria / Sept 28, 95
		According to Zhan Videnov, a complex mechanism for implementing the sanctions should be found to offer a way of overcoming the adverse effects suffered by countries that are not object of the sanctions but are hit by them.
		Zhan Videnov further said what has been stated on a number of occasions already, that Bulgaria is pursuing a firm policy for stabilization of the region, based on the principles of absence of territorial claims, territorial integrity, respect for all countries' sovereignty and noninvolvement in their domestic affairs.
		Zhan Videnov told the General Assembly the Yugoslav crisis highlights another vital UN mission, the consolidation of peace after the end of a conflict.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/bta/1995/95-09-28.bta.html (2150 words)

	BTA 08-05-95
		Videnov emphasized Bulgaria's continued commitment to a balanced and restrained policy of equal treatment of its neighbors.
		Videnov singled out as the most valid criticism at the Socialist Cabinet the need to specify its key commitments: sustained economic growth, structural adjustment in industry and agriculture, halting the immiseration, the implementation of a legal and institutional reform, and association with the European Union.
		However, Videnov said that the implementation of the budget depended on many conditions - legislative amendments, the policy of the central bank in respect to the exchange rate and the base interest rate and understanding on the part of the trade unions.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/bta/1995/95-05-08.bta.html (3025 words)

	Bulgaria - MSN Encarta
		Zhan Videnov, the 35-year-old chairman of the BSP, was appointed prime minister.
		Stoyanov won 60 percent of the vote in the elections, defeating Ivan Mazarov, the BSP candidate.
		Faced with Mazarov’s defeat, a collapsing economy, and an intraparty rebellion against his leadership, Videnov resigned his posts as prime minister and chairman of the BSP in December.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761556147_9/Bulgaria.html (1898 words)

	92064: Romania, Bulgaria, Albania: Recent Developments
		Videnov told parliament that the alternative would be "the collapse of the country." Thousands of demonstrators staged protests in Sofia against the tax and fuel price increases.
		Videnov reshuffled his cabinet on June 7, and survived a vote of no-confidence in parliament on June 13.
		Videnov's ultimate fate may be decided at the BSP party congress in late December.
	www.fas.org /man/crs/92-064.htm (8121 words)

	World Homes Network - Bulgaria
		A general election was held Dec 1994 and the ex-communist BSP won 125 of the 240 assembly seats.
		Zhan Videnov, hardline leader of the BSP, became prime minister.
		In the wake of the defeat of the BSP- backed candidate in the Nov presidential election, Zhan Videnov resigned as leader of the BSP and as prime minister.
	www.world-homes.net /atlas/europe/Eastern/bulgaria.htm (1317 words)

	Top Socialists in Bulgaria Say They Will Step Down - New York Times
		Bulgaria's Socialist Prime Minister, Zhan Videnov, widely blamed for two years of economic hardship, announced today that he and his Cabinet were quitting.
		Videnov said he did not intend to run for any post in the party leadership or the Government.
		Videnov has been widely blamed for not reforming the economy.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9F06E3DB1331F931A15751C1A960958260 (134 words)

	History guide for Bulgaria by Hostelbookers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Led by the young and popular Zhan Videnov, the BSP was by now an odd grouping of genuine social democrats, old-style Communists and out-and-out careerists, supported by industrial workers, pensioners and rural Bulgarians bewildered by the changes of the last few years.
		The BSP continued the cautious policies of the Berov government, indexing pensions and industrial wages to the rate of inflation and devaluing the lev in the hope of kickstarting Bulgaria's moribund economy with an export boom.
		With the government unable to meet its foreign debt repayments, and unwilling to introduce the economic austerity programme demanded of it by the IMF, Videnov resigned in December, ushering in a period of acute instability.
	www.hostelbookers.com /guides/bulgaria/104084 (452 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		Even though BSP refused to acknowledge its responsibility for all of the economic disasters that devastated Bulgaria over the last two years, the party leadership made sure that compromised associates of former Prime Minister Zhan Videnov, as well as Videnov himself, are not allowed to run on the party’s list.
		While the results formally reproduced the structure of the previous Parliament (five parties passed the threshold and the winning coalition controls an absolute majority in Parliament), several recent developments seem to indicate that the political system is undergoing changes that go much further than the substitution of one majority by another.
		The painful learning process, which reflects the traumas caused by the disastrous policies of Zhan Videnov’s rule, is slowly transforming into a new style of functioning of the major political institutions.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol6num2/constitutionwatch/bulgaria.html (1691 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		Political analysts in Sofia say that an absolute victory for Stoyanov on Sunday also would be seen as a denunciation of Prime Minister Zhan Videnov's Socialist government, and would deepen a rift between Socialist factions.
		Close associates of Lukanov say he had been preparing to expose corruption within Videnov's faction and plotting a political reshuffle when he was killed in front of his Sofia home on October 2.
		At a weekend rally in Varna, Stoyanov said that a vote for his UDF would be "a vote of no confidence" for Videnov.
	www.rferl.org /features/1996/10/F.RU.961023172239.asp (776 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		BSP’s next party congress is scheduled for May, and the leadership of the party, which may be characterized as moderate, is wary of a possible counteroffensive by communist hard-liners under the leadership of former prime minister Zhan Videnov.
		The no-confidence vote was apparently intended to reassert the antigovernment credentials of the incumbent party chairman Georgi Parvanov and his faction.
		At this point, only Zhan Videnov’s diehard communist faction within the BSP seems wholeheartedly to support an anti-Western tilt.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol7num1/constitutionwatch/bulgaria.html (1599 words)

	BULGARIA: parliamentary elections Narodno Sobranie, 1994
		Main contestants for the 240 Assembly seats were the formerly communist Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), which had held power until the general elections of October 1991 and which was led by Mr.
		Zhan Videnov; and the staunchly anti-communist Union of Democratic Forces (UDF), the largest group in the outgoing legislature headed by Mr.
		The same day, Prime Minister Videnov, aged 35, announced that his Government’s priorities would be to overcome the economic crisis, reduce the alarming crime rate, promote European integration and improve bilateral relations with other European nations.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2045_94.htm (421 words)

	Samizdat 2000
		In November 1996 the Bulgarian Socialist government of Zhan Videnov suddenly found itself in the middle of a financial crisis and a run on the banks.
		Earlier that year, Videnov had been praised for his 'reformist' credentials by newspapers like the Financial Times but he, too, had been making problems about selling off all the family silver.
		After violent protests erupted in Sofia, Videnov and the Socialist government resigned to be replaced in elections held in 1997 by a so-called centre-right government whose members parroted all the necessary nostrums of 'market reform' and 'Euro/Atlantic structures'.
	www.antiwar.com /stone/pf/pf-stone060900.html (2165 words)

	Crusader 52 Page 13
		In 1982 he became deputy director of a collective farm, and in 1985 he became secretary of that farm's Communist Party committee.
		In December of 1994, the Socialist (Communist) Party, led by Zhan Videnov, was returned to power, securing an absolute majority in the 240-seat parliament.
		In 1991 Videnov assumed leadership of the "former" Communists.
	www.fatima.org /crusader/cr52/cr52pg13.asp (1836 words)

	CNN - A taste of capitalism has Bulgarians demanding more - Jan. 16, 1997
		And an opinion poll by the MBMD polling agency, published in the daily Novinar, showed that public support for the ruling Socialists is just eight percent.
		Former Prime Minister Zhan Videnov called for a "parliamentary mandate" so that negotiations can begin with international lending institutions such as the World Bank.
		Otherwise, he said, Bulgaria will spend the last of its foreign exchange reserves and "further isolate itself from the world." Videnov resigned on December 21st and is blamed by the opposition for the country's economic crisis.
	edition.cnn.com /WORLD/9701/16/bulgaria.bitter/index.html (602 words)

	Bulgaria: history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In January 1995, socialist leader Zhan Videnov formed a new Government which included members from the BSP, the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union and the Eco-glasnost Political Club.
		In July, the President criticized the Government because he thought market reforms were not being implemented swiftly enough, suggesting the BSP was Â«genetically connectedÂ» to organized crime and that the Videnov administration was incapable of eliminating it.
		Petar Stoyanovâs Union of Democratic Forces won the first round of the Presidential elections in November 1996 and one month later beat the Socialist candidate, Ivan Marazov in the final round with 59.7 per cent of the vote.
	gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/country_history.cfm?Id=223 (3383 words)

	A Year on the Edge of a Political Swamp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		According to the latest polls, only 11 percent of the population would vote for the fake political formation that won the elections last year and came close to an outright majority [nearly 50 percent of the electorate].
		The government of former Socialist Prime Minister Zhan Videnov had a similar level of support--described at the time as a "catastrophic percentage"--at the end of 1996.
		Public support for the consistently criticized and cursed cabinet of Ivan Kostov [another former Bulgarian prime minister] was around 20 percent at the end of its full mandate last year.
	www.tol.cz /look/wire/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=10&NrIssue=381&NrSection=2&NrArticle=4883 (1262 words)

	NATO Research Fellowships 1994-1996
		In other words, the BSP combines the idea of "the new face" with the apparatus principle, which is possible only in the case of Komsomol cadres.
		Among the typical representatives of this cohort of "the young" is the incumbent Chairman of the party and Prime Minister, Zhan Videnov, the floor leader of the Socialist parliamentary faction, and the BSP's deputy chairpersons.
		At the same time, the aristocratic principle is applied too: figures legitimated as belonging to the party elite by birth have remained influential in the BSP, "third-generation party functionaries" who were active even at the earliest stage of the change.
	www.nato.int /acad/fellow/94-96/dimitrov/04-03.htm (1362 words)

	FarShores.org ParaDimensions News: Bulgarian Prophetess Claimed Contact With ETs
		Former prime minister Zhan Videnov and former communist dictator Todor Zhivkov are both reported to have sought her counsel.
		That made her a living saint for us,” said then-prime minister Zhan Videnov.
		An interesting footnote to Vanga’s story, is that she has also been embraced by UFO enthusiasts around the world.
	farshores.org /p05baba.htm (1311 words)

	[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
		She recalled that the SDS lost the 2001 parliamentary elections because voters had lost their confidence in the party, which at that time was led by then-Prime Minister Kostov.
		But after four years in office, Kostov faced much the same accusations of nepotism, corruption, and of having links with organized crime structures that Videnov faced at the time he was ousted.
		Such allegations, Mihailova said, show that the SDS had violated the moral contract it had struck with the voters on the eve of its 1997 electoral victory.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2004/02/5-NOT/not-250204.asp?po=y (981 words)

	Bulgarian Premier Confesses Failings
		SOFIA, Bulgaria -- The leader of the ruling Socialists apologized Tuesday on behalf of his party for disappointing people's expectations during two years of government in which Bulgaria dove to third-world economic status.
		Prime Minister Zhan Videnov resigned last month under fire for failing to implement economic reforms and take measures to halt inflation that topped 310 percent last year.
		Videnov also resigned as leader of the Socialist Party of former Communists.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/1997/01/22/032.html (179 words)

	Christian Belief: RELIGION-LAW.
		In an act of protest against the proposed bill, the alternative Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church headed by Metropolitan Innokentii of Sofia, has sent a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, Metropolitan Innokentii told a news conference Monday.
		He said that their complaint is also against the refusal of three consecutive governments - of socialist Zhan Videnov, of UDF's Ivan Kostov and of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, to register the alternative synod.
		He said that their complaint is also : against the refusal of three consecutive governments - of : socialist Zhan Videnov, of UDF's Ivan Kostov and of Simeon : Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, to register the alternative synod.
	members3.boardhost.com /beliver/msg/451.html (1570 words)

	1995: Bulgaria - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
		Cross references refer to Archive articles of the same year.
		After leading the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP, the former Communist Party) to a decisive victory in parliamentary elections in December 1994, Zhan Videnov took office as prime minister in January 1995.
		His government promptly issued a 'White Book,' placing the blame for the country's problems on...
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_1741573558/1995_Bulgaria.html (128 words)

	Bulgaria Country History - Table - MSN Encarta
		Former leader Zhivkov found guilty of corruption while in office and sentenced to imprisonment.
		Bulgarian Socialist Party won general election and Zhan Videnov became prime minister.
		Petar Stoyanov won presidential election and Videnov resigned as premier in December.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /media_121627529_761556147_-1_1/Bulgaria_Country_History.html (366 words)

	Baba Vanga - The Bulgarian Prophetess
		People from all over the country would come to her seeking answers and in many cases, consolation due to the wars.
		Some notables included Zhan Videnov, former Bulgarian prime minister, and Todor Zhivkov, a communist dictator.
		Her brother, Vasil, had decided to join the army, but Baba Vanga pleaded with him not to.
	www.mendhak.com /paranormal/prophecy/show.php?id=13 (906 words)

	Warsaw Voice - No More Illusions
		The former government, headed by Zhan Videnov, had adopted a "scorched earth" policy in its last few weeks, shipping fuel, grain, metal and currency reserves out of the country.
		One of the new government's first moves was to introduce rigorous border checks and to forbid Videnov's cabinet members from leaving the country.
		The new government also stopped all fuel, food and consumer goods exports for three months and turned over control of border crossings to military units.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /archiwum.phtml/381 (553 words)

	CNN - Bulgarians bring new government to a standstill - Jan. 10, 1997
		The Socialists had been expected to form a new government to replace Prime Minister Zhan Videnov who resigned on Dec. 21 after severe criticism of his management of the economy.
		The Socialists nominated Interior Minister Nikolai Dobrev, the party's strongman, to replace Videnov.
		But Dobrev was prevented from leaving parliament by a volley of snowballs Friday, as demonstrators registered their disapproval with the way the Socialists have dealt with the country's economic crisis.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9701/10/bulgaria.elections (610 words)

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